When Ephraim Copeland was born on 1 February 1697, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Copeland, was 40 and his mother, Mary Bass, was 27. He married Mercy Verin on 25 July 1723, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 3 November 1765, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 68.
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English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
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